Shield Design Contest

I finally went through and looked at everyone's shields and I am impressed! I have been struggling on making one. I do not know how you all made such good shields so quickly.

So quickly? I'll have you know my designs took several minutes hours each

the honeycomb shield took about thirty mins to make and now we're working on the last one since the last incident kinda put us off from making more since it was so annoying, my wife should be done tomorrow since we don't have much time because of our lil man, the design is all hers and it's pretty awesome, if we put it up tomorrow they should approve it by Monday morning.

my shield of sin took about 30 minutes too lol just couldnt get the blood right the other 2 about 10 minutes each

I am impressed that they did not take a lot of time and they looked so good! I think part of my problem is that I have no ideas at the moment. lol.

That's actually the hardest part for me. The first one (Myztyrio's Barricade eventually) is my normal drawing technique (like the posters and stuff I've done for events here). The Bear design too a long time to think of. Something prompted stars and you can see where it ended up. The last one was because I was just messing around with ideas. I did that magma one which made me think of my red portrait. So basically just keep throwing ideas out there.

what skare said, actually coming up with an idea is the hard part, the rest is easy once you know what you're gonna do.

Well I finally got mine done. Not that greatest but oh well, I gave it my best shot and for my first time even really using Gimp, I think it came out all right. Took me awhile but overall I'm pleased with it. When it gets put up in the gallery I'll show it.

Some amazing shields in the competition, both from the posters in this group and those who are not. With no disrespect intended to any of the other entries, I was particularly impressed in this thread by the Shield of Blackened Earth and the Honeycomb shield.

Here are several of the off-list ones I voted for:

Iron Oak Tall Shield: https://apps.facebook.com/darksoulsii/?gallery&action=view&id=1080
Fleeting Fox Tail: https://apps.facebook.com/darksoulsii/?gallery&action=view&id=2045
Moonchaser: https://apps.facebook.com/darksoulsii/?gallery&action=view&id=1320
Forest Shield: https://apps.facebook.com/darksoulsii/?gallery&action=view&id=1905

There are some amazing shields out there. It's good that From Software will be the one choosing the shields which will be added to the game, and not the one most voted. Because even though I'm a big fan of ENB, that pig shield is far from the best.

pig shield was well made but the reason is up there is because of fanboys, but like the guy above me said, its far from the best but on the other hand the tally shield is freaking awesome and so simple.

p.s. maybe check out mine? it's in my sig, and vote for everyone in here really, the winning shield has to be from someone in here.

^ Voted for yours. Is that the only one you've made?

i'm gonna put up another one tomorrow which should get approved by Tuesday, I will post it here as soon as they put it up.

Looking forward to it Rant.

Also, obligatory reminder to look in my sig for my designs as well

gaaahhh, why didn't I think about having it as my avatart, gg skare.

Lol. Still few results. Between three designs I'm up to 35 votes. On the plus side it does give us more mileage on our work

Edit: 39 votes! Thanks someones!!

I posted this on the general forums since more people check that out than the dkss2 section. hopefully everyone get into this.

I'll just go ahead and bump that from time to time.....

Well, I just posted my first two:

Not my best work, but... meh.

Reinforced Black Metal Shield



Reinforced Bamboo Shield

That's awesome. Post the link when it's approved for sure

Thanks skarekrow13!

Added my second one above. I wanted to make something opposite of the metal one.

Both look awesome Baal, I like the bamboo one the best.

This might be the coolest thread out in a long while! I love everyone's designs!

Pig shield is cool, I like Wailing Ward and Giger.

I 'd HARD at the Legend shield.

Midas shield... a GOLD great shield? I like the idea of that, something fresh.

I also like Drake Vanguard, the Twins seemed cool especially once I realized what it was doing.

Scudo Mortis is a bad *** kite shield

That was a fast approval process. I will just leave these here:

https://apps.facebook.com/darksoulsii/?gallery&action=view&id=2393

https://apps.facebook.com/darksoulsii/?gallery&action=view&id=2402

.... and I'll just give them a vote